Ropemaker Court Quotes & Sayings

Anytime the rich and poor combine, we should listen to whoever has the least power. Rich people are conditioned to assess the world through our privileges. The powerful tend to discredit or ignore the marginalized perspective because we can. We are shielded from the effects of a lopsided equation; we reap the benefits, not the losses. We don't mean to do this (or even know we do), but we evaluate other communities through the lens of advantage assuming we know best, have the most to offer. In doing so we unintentionally elevate our perception. — Jen Hatmaker

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves — Amanda Lindhout

Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky. — Terry Pratchett

I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that. — Ellie Goulding

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something. — Molly Quinn

If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working. — Thomas Sowell

I want so desperately to bridge the gap between our bodies. I want to press my lips to every part of him and I want to savor the scent of his skin, the strength in his limbs, in his heart. I want to wrap myself in the warmth and reassurance I've come to rely on. — Tahereh Mafi

Reason is passion's slave, is it not? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But nature, exhausted, takes lovers back into herself
as if she couldn't accomplish that kind of vitality twice. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse. — Pauley Perrette

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any. — Aesop

Movie and television stars lay down the law of
fashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash. — Billy Graham

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. — Graham Hancock